Diagnostic Imaging in Medicine

Abstract

I. Bio-Physilcal Principles of Image Structure and Perception.- Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Biological Form and Function.- Signal Detection Theory: Limitations and Applications.- II. Advances in Source & Detector Technology.- Methods of Microwave Imagery for Diagnostic Applications.- Time-of-Flight Method for Positron Tomographic Imaging and State-of-the-Art of Detector Technology for Emission Tomography.- Scanned Projection Radiography.- Photoelectronic Imaging and Optical Recording.- Compton Tomographic Imaging: Design Aspects and Performance.- III. Clinical Imaging: Basic Principles of Acoustical NMR and Transmission Tomographic Imaging.- Acoustical Imaging: Theory Limitations and Relationships to Other Imaging Modalities.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Imaging: An Overview.- Computerized Transmission Tomography: CT and Digital Volume Scanning.- Some Imaging Characteristics of the Dynamic Spatial Reconstructor X-Ray Scanner System.- IV. Clinical Imaging: Basic Principles of Emission Tomography & Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry.- Positron Emission Tomography (PET).- Current Status and Limitations of Single Photon Emission Imaging.- Biochemical Considerations in the Design of Radiopharmaceuticals.- V: Image Processing & Autoradiography.- Image Processing and Display.- Film Analysis Systems and Applications.- VI: Results of Clinical Evaluation: State-of-the-Art Performance of New Radiographic Transmission Techniques.- Digital Radiography: Developments, Limitations, Clinical Results.- Workshop in Clinical Applications of Transmission Tomography.- VII: The Results of Clinical Evaluation: Studies of the Central Nervous System.- The Interrelationships of Cerebral Blood Flow and Cerebral Metabolism and Its Study with Positron Emission Tomography in Man.- Dynamic Emission Tomography of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow.- Spect Brain Perfusion Studies Using N-Isopropyl I-123 P-Iodoamphetamine (IMP).- VIII: The. Results of Clinical Evaluation: Studied of the Heart and Lungs.- Utility of Imaging Techniques to Predict and Manage Patients with Cardiovascular Abnormalities.- Utility of Radionuclide Studies in Patients with Pulmonary Vascular and Airways Diseases.- IX: The Results of Clinical Evaluation: Studies of the Abdomen and Pelvis.- Clinical Studies of the Abdomen: Scintigraphic and Other Techniques in the Management of Patients with Abdominal Disease.- Real-Time Ultrasound.- Comparison of Different Imaging Techniques for the Prediction and Imaging of Patients with Abdominal, Pelvic, or Thyroid Disease.- Utilization of Special Computerized Tomography and Nuclear Medicine Techniques for Quality Control and for the Optimization of Combined Precision Chemotherapy and Precision Radiation Therapy.- Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography and Albumin Colloid Imaging of the Liver.- Automatic Analysis of Diagnostic Features from Digitized Radiocolloid Liver Images.- Interventional Ultrasound.- X: Cost-Effective and Cost-Benefit Assessment of New High Technology Procedures.- Diagnostic Imaging in Developing Countries.- Technology and the State: The Emergency of Health Care Rationing.- New and Emerging Health Care Technologies: Assessing Efficacy, Safety and Costs.- XI: Meeting Overview and Images of the Future.- Images of the Future.- Author Index.- Speakers/Participants List of Addresses.